How To FORMAT MAC Hard Drives & Which Option Is Best

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How To FORMAT MAC Hard Drives & Which Option Is Best - In this video, Will teaches you how to format (erase) Mac hard drives for the Apple Mac Operating System and explains which options are best for various types of drives includes SSDs, spinning drives, flash media, USB thumb drives.

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Welcome back to another video in this one since I have the new M1 Ultra Max studio setup on the new video editing desk that I recently built I thought it'd be a good idea to teach you how to format hard drives on the Mac operating system we'll cover all the different options available and I'll tell you which ones I think you should use for which circumstances such as if you're using ssds hard disk drives or Flash media like USB thumbsticks and if you like this video and want more like it don't forget to like the video and subscribe to see more videos like this from us in the future we have over 150 filmmaking tutorials on the channel so lots for you to learn from alright so let's jump in and talk about how to format hard drives on the Mac foreign.

There are several different formats you can choose when formatting your hard drive and you can also format tons of different types of drives you could do like SD cards USB sticks external ssds external drives internal drives so the way I'm going to show you is the standard way of formatting drives and you should do this every time you get a new drive and I do want to say and give a disclaimer that you need to be careful this is where you format your drives which means you could essentially delete a hard drive that you do not want to delete so be very very careful on which drives you are selecting.

So on the Mac system you go up to go and then utilities. and then we're going to look for the Disk Utility app we're going to open that up and then this is going to give you a representation of all the different drives on your system so right now I have an internal drive that it's two terabytes and I have an external drive that's four terabytes I am of course not going to be formatting any drives today however I can show you so if we click our 4 terabyte drive and go up to erase then you can give it a name and then choose the format so let's walk through all the different formats here all new drives that come with your Macs will be formatted to apfs.

It is the most modern way to format your drives as it has the best chance of protecting against hard drive failures and corrupted files however I've found in doing some tests that the speed isn't that much better so for me I'm actually a fan of the Mac OS extended journaled which is the original way of formatting drives so the internal drive was formatted by Apple themselves so they definitely have used this I have an external SSD and for me this external drive I formatted as Mac OS extended journaled now you can use case sensitive but I'm not really a fan of it because I don't need the names of the drives to be case sensitive so I normally just use the normal journaled one so I'd recommend to use this one generally now that being said you can use apfs if you do know that that you are working on a non-spinning disc.

Do not use this with a spinning discard drive as it's not designed for that in the tests I've done I've found that Mac OS extended actually performs better than apfs I don't know exactly why it might be because apfs spends a little more time making sure the files are going to be a little more safe but in any case if you're on a modern non-spinning drive apfs or Mac OS extended will be fine as for the other two options if you are planning on working on Windows N Mac then you'd want to go with xfat as xfat can be used on both systems and that being said MS-DOS can also be used on both Windows and Mac however this has a file limitation of four gigs which is of course not ideal nowadays especially if you're you're a video editor four gigs is a pretty small file size so that will not work so for SD cards and USB drives I would stick with xfat as it doesn't have the 4 Gig file limitation and it still works on both operating systems so because this is an SSD and it's Mac OS extended Journal.

We'll select that and then you can go down and click erase it'll then wipe the drive format it and give it a name based on what you entered here and it's as simple as that now again be very careful at which drive you select here because sometimes by default it'll select this and you might think that your external drive that you just plugged in that you do want to format is selected when in reality it's your internal or some other drive so be very very careful.

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